Quiz: how much of a 1% elite bubble do you live in?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:btw, charles murray's theories on race & intelligence in "the bell curve" are controversial and questionable. this quiz should be taken with a grain of salt.

Yes, of course, not to mention his more recent theories on the underclass set forth in "Coming Apart" (i.e., blaming poor people for being poor -- see, e.g., David Brooks's sycophantic columns in support of this). Nonetheless, like the Daily Show, Gawker, etc., it's still entertaining.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:31.

Probably should have been lower. I'm at least 2nd generation upper middle class (my parents are immigrants from another country where they're ancesters were definitely upper middle to rich class, but it's hard to compare with American upper middle/rich class). Many questions could have lowered my score, but for several years after college, I continued to live in the city where I went to college and to save money, I lived in a shared house in a not-so-good neighborhood. Many of the things that raised my score came from living there for those years.

Interesting.

Maybe you should have answered no on the n-hood question on the grounds that you were a gentrifier? Perhaps that qualification to the question was added after you took the quiz.

[Anonymous]

Bougie AA Native Washingtonian dual physician family here--scored an 8

[Anonymous]

Score: 37. Raised in DC suburbs by working class parents trying to climb the ladder. Still have relatives on the farm.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:31.

Probably should have been lower. I'm at least 2nd generation upper middle class (my parents are immigrants from another country where they're ancesters were definitely upper middle to rich class, but it's hard to compare with American upper middle/rich class). Many questions could have lowered my score, but for several years after college, I continued to live in the city where I went to college and to save money, I lived in a shared house in a not-so-good neighborhood. Many of the things that raised my score came from living there for those years.

Interesting.

Maybe you should have answered no on the n-hood question on the grounds that you were a gentrifier? Perhaps that qualification to the question was added after you took the quiz.

But we weren't gentrifiers. We were lazy post-college renters and we did not improve our property or the neighborhood. We lived like post-college guys saving money by living in a group house. We definitely did not gentrify the neighborhood.

[Anonymous]

Scored a 7 and I didn't grow up super rich or anything.

[Anonymous]

Score of 33

[Anonymous]

61. Grew up with firefighter dad and stay at home mom-turned-teacher's aid. Neither had college degrees. I am a first generation college graduate, now a lawyer, and sometimes have friction with my husband, who was the child of a successful lawyer, both parents college educated.

[Anonymous]

52. Interesting, but pointless.

The premise that "wealthy, super educated and super snobby live in cloistered communities (bubbles)" - can be a descriptor added to any community. The argument can be made that educated , wealthy individuals and families have a choice to insulate themselves, as opposed to lower and middle classes, and may not be aware of lower class struggles and social norms. However, I lived for a time in a small town in South Carolina, and the community there was segregated and "cloistered" in a bubble, just a different bubble than most people who live in DC. A blue-collar, evangelical Christian in a small town in Indiana will be living in a social and cultural bubble himself. Eating at Applebees or Chili's regularly will in no way increase my cultural awareness. Shit like this "quiz" just attempt to place some conflict on simple differences.

[Anonymous]

39.

[Anonymous]

54 Have to agree that it is" Interesting , but pointless."
I don't subscribe to Charles Murray's thinking or his stupid surveys
I was born into a working class family and grew up in small towns. Parents did not attend college, thanks to WW2 and Korea. I did manage to get thru college, grad school and law school but it took more years than usual due to financial straits, and the need to be self-supporting. Having been a Dead Head and having my own business helps a lot in such situations, I have found. I now live in a leafy green NoVa suburb and have no clue who the hell my neighbrs ( and vice versa) because they all seem to work longer hours than I do, but don't seem to enjoy either their professional status or the money they have made, but I do not socialize with them anyway. Especially the lawyers, god, they think they are the cats meow, don;t they?

[Anonymous]

Lawyers are just proles, they do not like to admit that , however, particularly those who labor in the larger downtown DC firms. They look down their rnoses at me but all pitch to get some business from me har.

[Anonymous]

And you look down your nose at them though you need them to do your legal work. Another tiresome anti-lawyer post. Zzzzz.